Re: x11 memory leak bugs

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Saturday 02 October 2004 05:43 pm, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> It is the QF causing problems which is executed as:
>     case 'F':
>         /* Strip out just the font name */
>         c = &(buffer[strlen(buffer)-1]);
>         while (*c <= ' ') *c-- = '\0';
>             pr_font(&buffer[2]);
>         XSetFont(dpy,gc,font->fid);
>         break;
>
> When I comment out the "XSetFont" function, the memory leak goes away.

So are you saying this is a memory leak in your X-server?
That's not really surprising, but it's not something we can fix.

How are you testing for memory leaks?